Stunning Lightning Above Mideast Seen from Space (Photo)

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/v1i_ccfAaXFgkswUIjYiNw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/LiveScience.com/Lightning_kuwait.jpg1395677378 (http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/stunning-lightning-above-mideast-seen-space-photo-150024447.html)This stunning image of a lightning strike over Kuwait was captured last December by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and released today (March 24) by NASA's Earth Observatory. The ISS recently installed a new instrument to help study the physics and composition of such bolts in detail on a daily basis. Lightning bolts flash across Earth's atmosphere as often as 50 times per second, which adds up to about 4.3 million times a day and 1.5 billion times a year, NASA officials wrote in an image description. The scientists will use the new lightning imagery and data from the ISS to try to understand what triggers lightning during storms in general, and what causes these rarer bursts of TGFs.




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